Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar

• Main Author: Li, Xiaofeng (auth)
• Other Authors: Fujimura, Atsushi (auth), Soloviev, Alex (auth), Lehner, Susanne (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: dispersion curve filtering; n/a; Synthetic Aperture Radar; RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM); marine X-band radar; compact polarization (CP); cross-polarization; proper orthogonal decomposition; rain; right circular horizontal polarization model; support vector machines; Sentinel-1; wind speed; wave height; hurricane; ocean surface waves; SMAP; Copernicus; synthetic aperture radar; co-polarized phase difference; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); oceans; fetch- and duration-limited wave growth relationships; Wake detection; air-sea interaction; phase-resolved wave fields; wind; SAR; CoVe-Pol and CoHo-Pol models; Baltic Sea; wind retrieval; ocean surface wind speed retrieval; CMEMS; detectability model; right circular vertical polarization model; hurricane internal dynamical process; ocean winds; polarimetry; sea surface roughness; eyewall replacement cycles; GF-3; dual-polarization; quad-polarized SAR; typhoon/hurricane-generated wind waves; coast and ocean observation; radar; geophysical model function (GMF); Doppler radar
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Changes in sea surface roughness are usually associated with a change in the sea surface wind field. This interaction has been exploited to measure sea surface wind speed by scatterometry. A number of features on the sea surface associated with changes in roughness can be observed by synthetic apert...